If a couple goes to a psychoanalytically oriented mental health professional, this therapist MOST likely would focus on:
A) increasing the positive comments spouses make.
B) understanding the unconscious motivations from childhood that are keeping the spouses from relating well.
C) increasing marital efficacy feelings.
D) providing medications.

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Psychoanalytically oriented mental health professionals focus on understanding unconscious motivations from childhood that are affecting current behavior and relationships. This approach aims to uncover repressed emotions and experiences to facilitate insight and resolution of psychological conflicts. Increasing positive comments and marital efficacy feelings may be goals of other therapeutic approaches, but they are not central to psychoanalytic therapy. Providing medications is the domain of psychiatrists, rather than psychoanalytically oriented mental health professionals.

If a Couple Goes to a Psychoanalytically Oriented Mental Health